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Innovating in a Secret World...

Monday 22nd February, 18:30 GMT, 13:30 EST, 10:30 PST

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Our February LNETM will examine how national security can drive innovation and how concepts & technologies that spin out from the intelligence community influence the private sector.

We are very pleased to have gathered a set of top industry experts to explore this topic, including:

Tina Srivastava PhD (Former Chief Engineer of Raytheon and author of Innovating in a Secret World).

Bob Flores (President & CEO of Applicology and Former CTO of the US Central Intelligence Agency)

Nat Puffer (Managing Director of IQT International)

Omar Saad (Head of Digital Policing Strategy & Innovation, London Metropolitan Police Service)

In addition, we will have flash talks showing two innovative technologies in the space:

Siren - John Randles (CEO) - provides the leading Investigative Intelligence platform to some of the world’s largest and most complex intelligence organizations. Rooted in academic R&D in information retrieval, distributed computing, and knowledge representation, the Siren platform combines the capabilities of search, business intelligence, link analysis, and big data operational logging and alerting.

Vintra - Brent Boekestein (Co-Founder & CEO) - makes AI-powered video analytics solutions that transform video from any camera source into actionable, tailored and trusted intelligence, enabling our customers to build and maintain the safest and most productive organizations in the world.

We're also planning to try out a new platform called Toucan for the LNETM "Afterparty", so do come join us for both the main event and the virtual networking afterwards.

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Getting a Nudge On... Behavioural Science in Enterprise Tech

Monday 26th October, 7pm GMT

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Creating great products involves a healthy mix of art and science - so we are very excited to welcome Matt Wallaert, an industry renowned expert in behavioural science as our next LNETM keynote speaker.

For over fifteen years, Matt has been applying behavioural science to practical problems, from startup exits to the Fortune 500 to an array of pro-social side projects.

In his new book, Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change, Wallaert details a science-based process to create behaviour change that can be implemented in organisations of any size and industry.

In addition to presenting, Matt will answer audience questions in a fireside chat that will be moderated by Jenny Grinblo (Head of User Experience & Design at Future Workshops).

We also have two highly impressive flash talks that will build upon the theme:

Cian O’Maidin (CEO of Nearform) will discuss how their contact tracing app are achieving mass adoption in nine jurisdictions to date (most recently in the US States of New York and New Jersey). Initially developed to augment Ireland’s contact tracing efforts, the Covid Tracker apps built by NearForm have effectively set the standard for what health authorities, governments and the public can expect from mobile technology in the fight against Covid-19.

Oz Alashe MBE (CEO & Founder of CybSafe) will discuss how their intelligent SaaS application applies behavioural science and data science to intelligently manage human cyber risk. All within the context of a more remote, flexible or hybrid working environment.

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Going with the TensorFlow... What’s next for ML?

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Since being open sourced by Google in 2015, TensorFlow has quickly become one of the core platforms used in the Machine Learning (ML) space – it is truly a global technology, with ~50m downloads and several thousand contributors. We are very pleased to welcome Kemal El Moujahid, Head of Product for TensorFlow at Google, to discuss the evolution of ML ecosystem and what the future holds for these technologies.

This discussion will be moderated by Kelley Mak, who is a Principal at the Work-Bench enterprise tech venture fund in NYC.

In addition, we will have flash-talks from two innovative emerging companies:

Peter Hayes, who will talk about a new company in the ML tagging space called HumanLoop.

Priscilla Alexander (Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Arthur.ai)

We are also very pleased to be joined by Professor Stephen Roberts, who is Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, to give an overview of their latest research in the space.

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Defying Gravity... Data Management in the Cloud

Mon 13th July, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8515938749306/WN_gMgtia81QpiuPffYDtXH7w

We are very pleased to welcome a panel of industry experts to discuss key trends in cloud data management with four highly innovative data companies.

 The expert panel will include:

Oli Bage (Global Head of Business & Data Architecture at Refinitiv)

Sarah Catanzaro (Partner at Amplify Partners)

Stijn (Stan) Christiaens (Co-Founder & CTO at Collibra)

A founder from each of the four emerging companies will present their capabilities and then discuss key trends in the space with the expert panel.

Our emerging company Founders presenting will include:

Anthony Cosgrove (Co-Founder of Harbr)

Maarten Masschelein (CEO & Co-Founder of Soda)

Seif Lotfy (Co-CTO and Co-Founder of Axiom)

Jorge Gomez Sancha (Co-Founder of Tinybird)

Oli has recently taken up the co-chair position at the EDM Council's Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) working group, so will also provide an overview of their activities.

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Serverless and the Future of Computing

Monday 15th June 2020, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

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Our next event examines the emerging cloud computing trend of Serverless, where much of the infrastructure is abstracted away to be managed by the cloud provider. While this change in consumption of infrastructure has much promise, there are also challenges such as application suitability, ambiguity of security and legacy migration.

We have assembled a great line-up of thought leading technical experts to discuss this topic and share their perspectives:

Chris Swan (Fellow, VP and Global CTO of Delivery at DXC Technology)

Melika Golkaram (Hybrid Cloud Specialist at Google)

Paul Johnston (Research Associate at the Leading Edge Forum, Consultant and Interim CTO)

The panel discussion will be moderated by Erik Stadigh (Investor at Crane Venture Partners).

There will also be flash-talks from Sebastian Goasguen (Co-Founder of Triggermesh) and Taavi Rehemägi (CEO & Co-Founder of Dashbird).

Thanks to our sponsors Orrick and the FinTech Innovation Lab for their support.

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State of the “Union - Knowledge Graphs in the Enterprise

Monday 1st June 2020, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2815901037630/WN_4Tx9O3FqSbarCimmpRYqRg. 

The London Enterprise Tech Meetup is going virtual for the summer! The first of these sessions will be on Monday 1st June for a one hour session and will feature an overview into the world of knowledge graphs *. Connecting disparate datasets in a meaningful way is strategic for every business as it helps decision makers, users, and (above all) computers gain context within the existing knowledge of an organisation. We’ll be featuring a panel, discussing the evolution and maturity of knowledge graphs in the enterprise, in addition to key trends and innovations in this space. The panel will include key industry experts, including:  

Ben Gardner (Knowledge Management Solution Architect, AstraZeneca)

Dylan Roy (Senior Engineering Manager, Dow Jones)

Jeremy Posner (Principal & Head of Services, Agnos.ai)

The discussion will be moderated by Mike Atkin (Director of the EKG Foundation and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University), who will also provide a high level introduction to the space before the panel.

We will also have two flash talks: 

Ruben Verborgh who is working with Tim Berners-Lee on the SOLID ecosystem.

Marit Rødevand (CEO & Co-Founder of Strise.ai)

* A knowledge graph is a programmatic way to model a knowledge domain with the help of subject-matter experts, data interlinking, and machine learning algorithms. The easiest example is probably the box you see in Google’s results.

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September LNETM (FinTech Focus)

Monday 2nd September, 18:30-21:00

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London is one of the key FinTech capitals globally. One of the key anchors in the London ecosystem is the FinTech Innovation Lab, who provide an equity free option for the most innovative emerging companies to engage with the largest financial services firms globally.

The September LNETM is focused on the FinTech Innovation Lab, with a unique opportunity to see four presentations from high performing graduates of the 2019 program.  The four presenting Founders will be interviewed by an expert panel from the FinTech Innovation Lab, made up of two mentors and two senior sponsors:

Andrew Sargison (Global Head of Tech for Advisory, Sales & Distribution and International Wealth Mgt at Morgan Stanley)

Anna-Lisa Wesley (Partner, Sapphire & Steel)

Cris Conde (Executive in Residence, Accel Partners)

Kate Bohn (Innovation & Strategy - Incubator and Accelerator Lead at Lloyds Banking Group)

Nathan O'Reilly (Director of Client Services Transformation, HSBC)

Gideon Hurwitz from the FinTech Innovation Lab team will moderate the expert panel.  The expert panel will also discuss key developments in the FinTech ecosystem, including audience Q&A.

Presenting companies:

LifeTise build tools to help you understand your money better and make plans that will let you afford the things you want in life. Childminder is a tool to help calculate the costs at different stages of a child’s life and Homeminder is designed to help people model the costs of purchasing a home.

Hub85 connects spreadsheets, data & end-user behavior to transform this data into relevant reporting and analytics that surface insights, alert to enterprise risks, inform business decisions, and unlock new opportunities. From ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements helping organisations to fast-track automation initiatives, their technology is changing the way businesses utilise and govern end-user computing.

TrustElevate builds technology solutions to solve verified parental consent and age checking challenges for businesses that serve children and young people.

Untied provides an app to take control of self assessment tax returns by connecting accounts, categorising transactions, maximising deductions and allowing users to submit tax returns – all from a mobile.

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April LNETM (Cyber Insecurity..?)

Monday 29th April (6:30pm - 9:00pm)

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Feeling insecure...? 

There has been unprecedented demand for IT Security solutions in recent years, with everyone from third party suppliers to the CEO being focused on and caught out by cyber risks.

The market for IT Security products has also been growing along with this demand, with companies increasing in both size and number – Gartner estimates the overall size of this market at $124 Billion in 2019, with a significant portion of this capital seemingly spent on feeding fear uncertainty and doubt in customers.

But when it comes down to it, what are the real threats and are we taking the right approach to mitigate them? Is the business of IT Security getting too big? Is this highly fragmented industry creating needs where there are none? Are there too many security companies? What should we care about?

We have a world class panel to discuss these questions and many more IT Security related topics, including:

Dexter Casey (CISO of Centrica)

Siân John (EMEA Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group at Microsoft)

Julian Levy (Operating Partner at Redline Capital) - Moderator

Becky Pinkard (VP, IT & Intelligence at Digital Shadows)

Will Sheldon (Investor at Summit Partners)

In addition, there will be demo presentations from two highly innovative emerging IT Security companies:

BigID uses advanced machine learning and identity intelligence to help enterprises better protect their customer and employee data at petabyte scale. Using BigID, enterprises can better safeguard and assure the privacy of their most sensitive data, reducing breach risk and enabling compliance with emerging data protection regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and California Consumer Privacy Act.

Blackout Technologies offers employers total control over that which employees can access via their mobile devices, including the ability to disable the camera and browser functions, and block the launching of apps on iOS and Android. This drastically limits the amount of data that could be removed or sent by rogue employees.

Sevren is a next generation application security management & orchestration platform tailored towards the emerging DevOps environment. Sevren programmatically consolidates all available development-environment data and uses this to provide visibility-into and automatic orchestration-of the SecDLC with a next generation ‘policy-as-code' solution.

Dexter Casey (Group CISO of Centrica)

Dexter Casey is the Group CISO of Centrica PLC, the UK's largest energy & gas company. Dexter has 17 years experience in the IT Security space, with senior roles at a range of top tier organisations including Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, HSBC, Willis Towers Watson, Royal Mail Group and The Cooperative Group.

Siân John (EMEA Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group at Microsoft)

Siân John MBE is Chief Security Advisor for EMEA in the Cybersecurity Solutions Group at Microsoft. Siân has worked in cyber security since 1997, and has worked at the Houses of Parliament, Ubizen and Symantec before joining Microsoft.

Siân leads the EMEA security advisors who work with Microsoft’s customers to help them to develop their cyber security strategy, security best practices and to understand how Microsoft’s technology and services can help support digital transformation and cloud services. Siân directly engages with Microsoft’s largest customers in the UK and Ireland.

She was awarded an MBE in the Queens New Years Honours List for 2018 for services to Cybersecurity. She holds the CiSSP, CISM, and SABSA certifications. Siân is Chair of both the techUK CyberSecurity Management committee and the Digital Economy Advisory Board for the UK Research Councils.

Julian Levy (Operating Partner at Redline Capital) - Moderator

Julian Levy is the Operating Partner at Redline Capital, a 350M B2B technology fund, where he focuses on anything to do with enterprise technology with specific interests around security, silicon and infrastructure.

Prior to his career in venture capital, Julian had worked for a CSFB, BofA Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, covering a broad range of technical and commercial roles including leading global technology teams, working in security engineering and infrastructure roles, front-office equity research and business development, as well as having been an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Index Ventures, and founded his own company.

Becky Pinkard (VP, IT & Intelligence at Digital Shadows)

Becky Pinkard, VP, IT and Intelligence at Digital Shadows, is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky has built and managed global information security teams, designed risk and compliance strategies, led security audits and assessments, and developed security awareness training in small and large environments. She began her current role with Digital Shadows in December 2015.

Becky was a SANS Institute certified instructor for over a decade, beginning her training career with SANS in 2001. She has also served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center for Internet Security. Becky has co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS".

Will Sheldon (Investor at Summit Partners)

Will Sheldon is a technology investor at Summit Partners, where he helps to lead European software and IT security investments. Summit Partners’ security software investments include Avast (IPO), Cloudmark (acquired by Proofpoint), Darktrace, LiveOffice (acquired by Symantec), McAfee (IPO), NetWitness (acquired by RSA), Postini (acquired by Google), RiskIQ, SafeBoot (acquired by McAfee), and Sybari (acquired by Microsoft). Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is currently managing more than $19 billion, with offices in Boston, Menlo Park, London and Luxembourg.

Aside from his role at Summit Partners, Will is a member of the Steering Committee of SINET, a global cybersecurity community supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with the mission to encourage innovation within the security domain. Will also serves as a mentor at CyLon, a leading accelerator program for IT security start-ups.

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Open Source... Buy v. Build v. Download

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The prominence of Open Source has grown significantly in recent years, with many Fortune 500 enterprises seeing this as a core part of their technology strategy.  This goes far beyond the traditional Open Source staples like Linux, to include new products such as Tensorflow, Kubernetes and Kafka. Like their predecessors, these innovative next generation technologies are disrupting the software market.

We are excited to welcome some world-leading experts in the Open Source space to discuss the influence of Open Source in the modern enterprise, including:

David Perry (VP EMEA, Confluent)

Fintan Ryan (Senior Director and Analyst, Gartner)

Jacob Jofe (VP, Index Ventures)

John Newton (CTO & Founder, Alfresco Software)

The panel will be moderated by Lucy Fox from Open Sensors.

David Perry (VP EMEA, Confluent)

David joined Confluent in 2016 and leads the go to market strategy in EMEA. Confluent was founded by the team that built Apache Kafka® at Linkedin, Confluent builds a streaming platform that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.  Kafka was open-sourced from its early days and now has an impressive industry-wide adoption across several thousand companies.

David has worked in technology sales and management for the past 20 years. Prior to Confluent David led the EMEA Sales Team at Acquia. Acquia provides a leading cloud platform, based on Open Source Drupal, for building, delivering, and optimising digital experiences.

Jacob Jofe (Vice President, Index Ventures)

Jacob joined Index Ventures in 2015 and leads our network development team, where he focuses on building Index's network of entrepreneurs & executives.

Prior to joining the firm, Jacob worked in the TMT Investment Banking and Technology Divisions of Goldman Sachs. While in TMT, Jacob advised tech clients such as Salesforce and Dropbox on a variety of public & private financings. In the Technology Division, he focused on the strategy and the commercialization of internally developed solutions. Jacob holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Vanderbilt University.

John Newton (Chairman, Founder & CTO of Alfresco Software)

John Newton, CTO and Founder, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum®, the leader in content management acquired by EMC.

For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum's marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres® where he helped develop the world's first commercial relational database. John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Fintan Ryan (Senior Director & Analyst, Gartner)

Fintan's research focuses on all things cloud native, from tooling to methodologies and the organisational aspects of software development. His primary research areas include software lifecycle, cloud native computing architectures (containers, kubernetes, service mesh), serverless, PaaS, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is an accomplished public speaker and panel moderator. Prior to joining Gartner, Fintan held senior roles across management, development, services and strategy in both startups, enterprise technology vendors and as an industry analyst. He holds an MSc in Information Systems Strategy from Dublin City University.

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January LNETM (Disruptive Data)

NOTE: Our ticketing process has changed, so please use the following link to sign-up to the event: https://jan2019lnetm.eventbrite.co.uk. With the relentless growth in data volume, and hundreds of new types of data-sets available to modern enterprises, understanding the latest tools and analytics is critically important to an organisation’s success. The January LNETM will be focused on how progressive organisations maximise the potential of new data platforms, data sources and analytical techniques. We are very lucky to have an exceptional panel of global thought leaders covering the most disruptive next generation data technologies:

Stan Christiaens, co-founder and CTO of Collibra, to talk about dataset catalogs and alternative data governance.

Romain Fouache, VP of Strategy at DataIku, on collaborative data science tool evolution.

Mike Grove, co-founder and VP of Engineering of StarDog, to talk about enterprise knowledge graphs.

Steve Totman, of Cloudera, to talk about cloud based data analytics platforms

Kate Platonova, the chief data architect of HSBC, to talk about disruption to the traditional enterprise data landscape.

Oli Bage, head of Accessibility & Analytics for Morgan Stanley’s Data Center of Excellence, to host the discussion

This is a great line-up speakers, so we expect this to be a very popular event - please sign-up now.

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Beyond the Pandemic - What’s next for enterprise tech?

Monday 29th June 2020, 19:00 BST / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST

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 LNETM is going virtual for the  summer!

 Our next event examines how  Enterprise Tech companies are going to move beyond the initial phase of the  pandemic into the broader economic reality in the wake of COVID19.

We have assembled a world-class line-up of thought  leading speakers to discuss this important topic:

Cristobal  Conde (EIR at Accel Partners and  former CEO of Sungard)

Didi Dayton (Partner at Wing Venture Capital)

Martin Taylor (Principal at  Vista Equity Partners and  President of OneVista)

 The panel discussion will be moderated by Lisa Nelson (former Co-Founder  and Managing Director at M12).

There will also be flash-talks from Mimi Keshani (VP  Operations at Hadean) and Neta Meidav (CEO & Co-Founder of Vault Platform).

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2020 Vision - Big Tech in the New Decade... (Feb LNETM)

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We are very pleased to welcome Benedict Evans, former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in Silicon Valley, as our main speaker at the February LNETM (Mon 10th Feb). 

Ben has just returned to the UK after spending a number of years in the USA , so this is a unique opportunity to hear his world-class insights in a whistle stop tour of the global technology trends.

Benedict will present his perspectives, followed by a fireside chat that will be moderated by Julian Levy (Operating Partner at Redline Capital).

In addition, there will be three demo talks from innovative technology companies, including:

Nexbotix identifies high volume, repeatable processes that are currently performed by humans, and creates intelligent automated processes that allow them to be performed, unattended, by software robots. The platform is software as a service and uses automation and AI machine learning to deliver a smarter way of working. NexBotix also provides real time process analysis and performance data through NexAnalytics, our process analysis dashboard, making it easy to manage and make decisions.

Polystream connects the computing power of the cloud to the billions of GPUs in games consoles, phones and computers, our ground-breaking technology creates scale at a level once thought impossible. Current solutions need to virtualize GPUs in the cloud to deliver a video to each user. They aim to replace this hardware dependence with a software-defined architecture that delivers commands, not video.

Demo 3: TBC

Benedict Evans (Former Partner, Andreessen Horowitz)

As a long-time mobile analyst, Benedict has been working in the media and technology industries for 15 years. He first entered the industry as a sell-side equity analyst for investment banks before moving on to strategy and business development roles at Orange, Channel 4 and NBC Universal.

Most recently Benedict was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he researched key industry trends for the pre-eminent US VC firm.

Benedict has been publishing a weekly newsletter every Sunday since 2013 that provides his notes for week on the news that actually matters and what it might mean, which reaches 130,000 readers.

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Good Migrations... (Mon 13th Jan)

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The January 2020 LNETM will focus on the change from large multi-year OS migration projects to the more regular iterative approach that comes with evergreen operating systems, such as Win10 and others. The panel will discuss how these changes are managed, the impact for application owners and how the OS owners need to think differently about management/distribution/training.

We are in the process of lining up a world-class set of speakers to discuss these topics, including:

Nigel Filer (Founder & CEO of Rimo3)

Richard Dickens (Head of End User Services EMEA at Bank of America)

Steve Matthews (Global Programme Director for Windows 10 and Office 365 at Morgan Stanley)

Angelique Mohring (CEO & Founder of GainX), who was a panelist in the AI discussion during November will return to moderate the panel in January.

In addition, we will have demo talks from three innovative emerging companies in this space:

Juriba is a developer of IT migration command and control software designed to facilitate and automate the management of enterprise IT transformation projects such as Windows 10, Office 365, email, hardware refresh, application rollouts, MDM and virtualisation. Its flagship product, Dashworks, enables organisations to accelerate IT migration projects through agent-less, user-centric compatibility analysis, and dynamic project delivery management.

Lakeside's SysTrack digital experience monitoring platform gathers data to enable quantification of user experience, continuous measurement of the impact of change plus the analysis of the user personas/apps/devices to enable smooth migrations and transformations. Analysing 10,000+ data points collected every few seconds on each device delivers insight to lower the volume of help desk tickets, identifying over and under-provisioning, selecting the best-fit technology for the environment, tracking SLA performance and measuring the performance of projects. SysTrack provides the visibility needed to lower IT costs and optimise operations while improving business productivity.

Rimo3's ACTIV platform helps organisations adopt technology, manage change and minimise disruption through automation. The platform provides intelligent automation at scale to assess the impact of change across the application landscape, accelerating migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and ensuring continuous compatibility and compliance.

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Containing the Future... (Oct 2019 LNETM)

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Since its initial announcement by Google in 2014, Kubernetes has become a foundational technology for the growing field of containerisation and microservices.  Kubernetes is also central to the future evolution of this space, so we are very pleased to announce that Craig McLuckie (one of the founders of Kubernetes) will be the keynote speaker at the October LNETM.

Craig will discuss the origin of Kubernetes from Google's Borg, the growth of the technology, the creation of Heptio and their subsequent acquisition by VMware.  In addition, he will give his perspective on the future for the technology and microservices more generally.  The fireside chat with Craig will be moderated by Steven Verze (Enterprise Cloud Architect at London Stock Exchange Group).

Demo presentations on the evening will include:

Jetstack is fast-growing Kubernetes professional services company that builds modern,cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and prides itself with helping startups and enterprises alike in their path to these next generation technologies.

Demo 2: TBC

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Craig McLuckie 

VP R&D, VMware's Cloud Native Applications

Craig McLuckie is the VP of R&D for VMware's Cloud Native Applications business unit. Craig arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader in the cloud native market and a company that he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig spent time in senior positions at Microsoft and Google; at the latter he made significant contributions to Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes. Craig also co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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June LNETM (New Kids on the Blockchain...)

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Blockchain is one of the most over-hyped terms in tech right now, often polarising discussions about proposed use cases and even the future of the technology itself.

The June LNETM is all about practical applications of blockchain, particularly how this technology may become highly relevant to the enterprise. We have brought together a set of top expert speakers and innovative companies to illustrate these some use cases and discuss where the technology may go over time.

We are going to try a bit of a different format this month, where the panel will review/discuss the technology proposition with the presenter after each demo - our expert panel will include:

Ankur Banerjee (Solution Lead at Accenture UK Blockchain & Digital Identity Practice)

Marta Piekarska (Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger)

Dr Rajiv Mathur (CTO & Director of Chainvine, an expert blockchain consultancy)

We have some excellent companies presenting their innovative propositions (See below) so this should be a thoroughly thought provoking discussion.

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Demo Presenters

Adents (John Fitzgerald - CEO)

Adents is a leading provider of premier serialisation solutions for unique product identification and traceability. Adents helps pharmaceutical companies, Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) and their Supply Chain Partners adapt to market changes and comply with regulations on drug traceability.

Adents Seriza, a serialisation solution for manufacturing sites, has been selected as a preferred solution by Siemens for its customers. Adents Prodigi, a cloud solution jointly developed with Microsoft and powered by Azure technologies, allows for secure data exchange and helps leverage the power of serialisation data.

Evernym (Andrew Tobin - Managing Director, EMEA)

Sovrin is the world’s only global public utility for trusted, self-sovereign identity. Like the Internet, it is not owned by anyone: everyone can use it and anyone can improve it.True, globally scalable self-sovereign identity requires an open source, decentralised network which no single entity owns or controls. Until the advent of distributed ledger technology (DLT) this was impossible. Not any more.

Sovrin utilises Hyperledger Indy, an open source blockchain framework and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. Hyperledger Indy’s source code was originally developed and contributed by Evernym. Sovrin represents the leading edge of distributed ledger technology, with unique privacy, performance and security characteristics ideal for identity and not found in any other ledger.

Evident Proof (Adrian Clarke - CEO)

Evident Proof is a blockchain and token-based service to meet the ever-increasing need for efficient, secure and immutable data verification, provenance and proof services. Businesses can use Evident Proof to verify their operational activities, prove provenance and product quality, provide evidence of compliance, better manage risk, and more. Individuals can take control of their own data by using the Evident Proof service to proof chain personal activities and information. This will allow them to manage who sees their data, and when. The Evident Proof solution transforms current corruptible methods of storing data by using immutable proof chains on blockchain. It delivers proof certificates that cannot be destroyed or hacked, and a new way of creating value from your data.

Ocean Protocol (Dr Irene Lopez de Vallejo - Director of Partnerships & Business Development)

Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem for the data economy and associated services. It provides a tokenised service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of deterministic proofs on availability and integrity that serve as verifiable service agreements.

Ocean helps to unlock data, particularly for AI. It is designed for scale and uses blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner.

Through blockchain technology and tokens, Ocean Protocol connects data providers and consumers, allowing data to be shared while guaranteeing traceability, transparency, and trust for all stakeholders involved. Ocean Protocol is designed to give data owners control over their data assets and prevent them from being locked in to any single marketplace.

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Feb 2019 LNETM (Enterprise Europe 2019 Review)

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What does 2019 look like for the latest crop of upcoming Enterprise Software companies in Europe?

We are very pleased to welcome Andy Leaver from Crane Ventures to present their Enterprise Europe 2019 report, which is a survey of VC-backed founders and senior executives building enterprise software companies in Europe. They were fortunate to have 125 people from seed to Series C and D companies sharing their thoughts on building and scaling their businesses in Europe and internationally.

Once Andy has presented the findings of the research study, he will be joined on stage by three of the Founders who contributed to the survey for a deeper discussion on the topics/trends. The three founders are:

David Atkinson (CEO & Founder of Senseon)

Dr Edward Challis (CEO & Co-Founder of Re:Infer)

Jenna Brown (CEO & Founder of Shipamax)

In addition, each of the CEO's will provide a demo of their technologies earlier in the evening.

Andy Leaver (Partner at Crane Ventures)

Andy has extensive experience funding, scaling and leading exceptional global teams in highly disruptive technology companies. For the last 20 years he has placed himself at the intersection of the tectonic shifts in the software industry, building global teams from scratch in Cloud, Big Data, Mobile and Social businesses.

His passion for investing, technology and leadership has helped him create explosive growth at Ariba, SuccessFactors, Bazaarvoice, Workday and Hortonworks – all starting from humble beginnings and resulting in world leading public companies via IPO. These are the deep learnings he draws upon to help scale the new emerging leaders of Intelligent Computing, including placing himself as CxO in companies such as Onfido and H2O after growth funding.